Re: UK sailors captured at gunpoint
Just as I said at the start, this is all blowing over. Ahmedinejad has announced that the 15 will be released immediately. It took 8 days last time, and around a fortnight this time.
Once more… the mAd_ScIeNtIsT is right. Being this right this often is starting to bore me…
At the end of the day, ever since the 1990s when revolutionary zeal finally vanished, Iran’s successive elected officials have never acted in an irrational way with regard to international affairs (though what they say has often been odd, but intended for domestic consumption). There was no reason to ever suspect they would do something stupid enough to do something belligerent like prosecuting and later persecuting another country’s military personnel.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says 15 British naval personnel captured in the Gulf are free to leave.
He repeated allegations that the British sailors and marines “invaded” Iranian waters, but said they were being released as a “gift” to Britain.
He said they would be taken to Tehran airport and flown home within hours.